Transcriber's note: The following Table of Contents has been added for the convenience of the reader.
CHRONICLES OF THE PAST.
HOPE: FROM THE GERMAN.
AN OLD MAN'S REMINISCENCE.
THE INNOCENCE OF A GALLEY-SLAVE.
THE COUNT OF PARIS.
SKETCHES OF EAST-FLORIDA.
EPIGRAM OF PLATO TO A DECEASED FRIEND.
AUTUMN.
FIORELLO'S FIDDLE-STICK.
SUNSET: THE DYING CHRISTIAN.
SONG OF THE WESTERN STEAMBOAT-MEN.
THE 'EMPIRE STATE' OF NEW-YORK.
GREEN SPOTS IN THE CITY.
A DREAM OF CHILDHOOD.
ANECDOTE OF A BOTTLE OF WINE.
ON THE DEATH OF A CLASSMATE.
GLEANINGS FROM THE GERMAN.
THE QUOD CORRESPONDENCE.
THE SEASON OF DEATH.
THE MEMOIRS OF COUNT ROSTOPTCHIN.
ANACREONTIC.
INTERNATIONAL COPY-RIGHT.
LINES TO FITZ-GREENE HALLECK.
THE MAIL ROBBER.
LETTER FOURTH.
LITERARY NOTICES.
EDITOR'S TABLE.
LITERARY RECORD.
Vol. XXII. OCTOBER, 1843. No. 4.
BY AN AMERICAN ANTIQUARY.
The old town of Ipswich, in the Bay State, exhibits many rarerelics of antiquity. Purchased under the title of Agawam, in theearly settlement of the colony, and granted in the year 1632 totwelve freeholders who made oath of their 'intention of settlement,'it dates back its origin among the very first townships of New-England.At that time, and for many years afterward, it was thenorthern frontier of Massachusetts, and was constantly exposed tothe attacks of the tribes of Indians in its neighborhood. Thoughits population was composed mostly of tillers of the soil, the buildings,unlike all other farming towns of the commonwealth, wereerected for common safety upon a single street; and even to thisday its sturdy yeomanry live in town, though the farms they cultivateare many of them miles distant in the country.
The old street is still in existence, and we venture to say that ithas not its parallel in all N